Digital Health Education and Training: Stop piling on clinical and economic mandates. I don't know how to manage a population.

There appears to be a CIO-MD gap, so add that to the list of digital health gaposes. Here are 10 ideas to fill the MD-CIO gap:

1. CIOs and doctors need to get out of the office. They need to be more visible and approachable to each other. Doctors need to be receptive. Both need to understand where each other stands based on where they sit.

2. Rethink the role of CMIOs. Are they suits in the front office just trying to get the Epic roll out done or are there more important fish to fry?

We need to repair the CIO-Doctor Relationship. CIOs need to treat doctors more like internal customers instead of data entry clerks who manage patient data points to generate revenue or comply with regulatory IT mandates. Doctors ned to treat CIOs like the professionals they are and not use them as scapegoats for a dysfunctional HIT ecosystem.

CIOs are from Venus and Doctors are from Mars. They are just not communicating or listening to each other and , as a result, the universe in not in sync. The two planets are in different orbits passing each other at thousands of miles an hour in the darkness and they seem to be revolving around different centers of gravity.

Arlen Meyers, MD, MBA is the President and CEO of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs at www.sopenet.org